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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

William Cowper
Love, I Miss You, Missing You
William Cowper, Robert Southey (1836). “Miscellaneous poems. Olney hymns. Anti-Thelyphthora. Table talk and other poems. Translations from Vincent Bourne”, p.28

Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.

William Cowper
Love, Son, Mercy
William Cowper (1854). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper”, p.143

England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!

William Cowper
Love, Country, Faults
The Task bk. 2 "The Timepiece" l. 206 (1785) See Charles Churchill 1

Lord, it is my chief complaint, That my love is weak and faint; Yet I love thee and adore, Oh for grace to love thee more!

William Cowper
Love, Grace, Lord
William Cowper (1851). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.660

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